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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 7h

That Music List continues. Edition #273 incl. music from Morphine, Brian Wilson, Melanie A Davis & The Madness, Planette Automatic, Denzel Curry, Inner Magic, Salt Water Criminals, Piney Gir, P. Lion, Finnmark!, Helen Lundy Trio, The Chelsea Curve & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/09/list...

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LIST 273 - 26/09/2026

(The Piney Gir Country Roadshow - Tapestry Goes West festival, Margam Park, Port Talbot 10/08/2007. Pictures are author's own) Hello again, ...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #272 incl. music from Precious Metals, Elli et Jacno, Nat Johnson & The Figureheads, Inspiral Carpets, Ex:Re, The Flying Hats, Water Machine, Nicole Atkins, Fever Ray, Fischer-Z, Cookie Crew, Gnac, I'm So Hollow & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/09/list...

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LIST 272 – 19/09/2026

(Coup Dur - Mary Street Live, Sheffield 11/09/2026. Pictures are author's own) Hello again, This week's List was always going to have a Fra...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Better minds than mine can work out the irony of the place our kids go for their swimming lessons using AI for the teachers' profile pics (possibly at the cost of one swimming pool's worth of water per pic).

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Only because nobody ever did get round to making Chuckie Egg - The Movie. I'd pay to see that.

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #271 includes music from Panixphere, Mariner 9, Windy & Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory, Kiwi Jr, SILVERWINGKILLER, Massive Attack & Tom Waits, Pop Will Eat Itself, Snuggle, Cud, Duck, Quarks, After The Fire, EMF and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/09/list...

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LIST 271 - 12/09/2026

(The Burgers - Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield 06/09/2026. Pictures are author's own) Hello again, Depending on when you read this (and the ana...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #270 includes music from Haute & Freddy, Good News, Death Valley Girls, DIIV, Hunter As A Horse, Swansea Sound, Town Bike, The Softies, Her Name In Lights, Beth Gibbons, Pet Snake, Sparklehorse, Anne Clark, Wir and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/09/list...

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LIST 270 - 05/09/2026

(Town Bike - Going Up the Country, Church House Inn, Congleton 14/06/2015. Picture is author's own) Hello again, Whisper it, but I don't bel...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our favourite squirrel dismantlers and trip hazards, seen here still nagging me for yet more snacks at some ungodly hour the other night. Happy gotcha day, Bernard (blue collar) and Reginald (red) - two years with us today.

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #269 incl. music from The Spook School, Robyn Hitchcock, Queens of the Stone Age, The Burgers, Crush Fund, Coup Dur, Pan Amsterdam, Michael Cretu, Gavin Osborn, The Scaramanga Six, Bassomatic, The Roebucks, Psapp & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/08/list...

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #268 incl. music from Teenage Fanclub, Fujiya & Miyagi, Hollow Hand, Tony Bontana, Robber Robber, Helen and the Horns, Wolfgang Voigt, The Offs Meet WrongTom, Consolidated & the Yeastie Girlz, Mark Hollis, Airiel & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/08/blog...

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LIST 268 – 22/08/2026

(Helen McCookerybook - Going Up the Country, Church House Inn, Congleton 14/06/2015. Picture is author's own) Hello again, First up, a very ...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #268 incl. music from Teenage Fanclub, Fujiya & Miyagi, Hollow Hand, Tony Bontana, Robber Robber, Helen and the Horns, Wolfgang Voigt, The Offs Meet WrongTom, Consolidated & the Yeastie Girlz, Mark Hollis, Airiel & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/08/blog...

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LIST 268 – 22/08/2026

(Helen McCookerybook - Going Up the Country, Church House Inn, Congleton 14/06/2015. Picture is author's own) Hello again, First up, a very ...

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Lisa T @lisatans.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A kind and decent soul. Money for covid vaccines, child literacy funding, a great power for good.

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If it was only the records Dolly Parton was a genius, but so much more than that. The child literacy campaign in itself.

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #267 incl. music from Lael Neale, Arun Sood & Angeline Morrison, Kavus Torabi, Kwamé Bâ, Castle Dragon, Surface of the Earth, Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains, Liechtenstein, Justin Warfield, The Grifters, Bill Oddie & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/08/list...

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LIST 267 - 15/08/2026

(Liechtenstein - Indietracks Festival, 26/07/2008. Pictures are author's own) Hello again, Trust you have all survived another abnormally h...

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 14/08/2026

A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #266 includes music from The Yummy Fur, Nev Clay, Phoebe Bridgers, Test Card, This Is Lorelei, Argonaut, Railcard, Vanishing Twin, Stealing Sheep, Bilge Pump, L7, Black Uhuru, B Troop, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Britta and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/08/list...

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LIST 266 – 08/08/2026

(Stealing Sheep - Indietracks Festival, 28/07/2019. Pictures are author's own) Hello again, This List comes to you live from my own attic ...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #265 includes music from Sibille Attar, Pink Turns Blue, Mysterious Art, Opal Mag, Schwermut Forest, J, The Luxembourg Signal, Stage, Cat Power, Mouse On Mars, Pink Kross, Nature of Language, Way Dynamic, The Cure & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/08/list...

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LIST 265 – 01/08/2026

(In the absence of any more relevant a picture this week, here is Reginald Grayson taking a brief few moments off as a trip hazard made fles...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Waynetta wuz robbed. #iykyk

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Adrian Giddings @cunabula.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New from @weirdwalk.bsky.social

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Stewart Lee: Basic Lee DVD (Live At The Lowry) | Weird Walk

Stewart Lee's acclaimed live show Basic Lee gets its first DVD release: a limited 2-disc edition with 80 minutes of unreleased audio extras. Pre-order now.

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #264 includes music from Alewya, Barbara Morgenstern, Leao, Tocotronic, Keeley, La Sécurité, Flora Hibberd, Fancy, Leenalchi, Bradford, Deep Lust, Party Dozen, Orange Cake Mix, Eux Autres, The Fairways, Calexico and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/07/list...

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LIST 264 – 25/07/2026

Hello again, A hypothesis on which to start this week. The Hamburger Schule - a pivotal movement in German music, developing a new intellect...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #263 includes music from PJ Harvey, Special Friend, Les Big Byrd, Slippers, Penelope Isles, L'Rain, The Field Mice, Huggy Bear, Wolfsheim, Rheingold, Goblin, Baby Bird, The Lonesome Organist, John Foxx, Humanoid and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/07/list...

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LIST 263 – 18/07/2026

(The entrance to Pontins, Camber Sands 26/09/2017, a great many years after the venue bore witness to - among other things - The Lonesome Or...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Edition #262 of That Music List is a 2018 collection, including The Sunbathers, The Chills, Gwenno, Linda Guilala, Grace Petrie, Daphne & Celeste, Janelle Monae, The Third Eye Foundation, Haiku Salut, Hollow Threats, Wargirl, Lake Ruth, Steve Reich & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/07/list...

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LIST 262 – 11/07/2026 (a 2018 collection)

Hello again, Almost a week on, I've finally found a few minutes to collate my thoughts on a magical first musical festival experience for th...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

(Cancels all other plans for Monday nights until further notice)

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Ahead of today's final Pop At The Lock festival, edition #261 of That Music List features almost every act ever to have played it, including 2026 guests The Darling Buds, The Cords, BMX Bandits, The School, Quad 90, The Sunbathers, Jetstream Pony, etc. thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/07/list...

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LIST 261 – 04/07/2026 (Pop at the Lock special)

Hello again, Well. My gig spreadsheet (of course there's a spreadsheet...) informs me that the ongoing period of six years, eleven months a...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

More targets for the year reached.

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #260 incl music from The Durutti Column, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, The Linda Lindas, Grace Ives, Mike D, My Lo-Fi Heart, Otoboke Beaver, Fox, Airstream, Lynks, To My Boy, Topper, Those Dancing Days, The Raspberries & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/06/list...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So I went to this fast food outlet, and the guy served me a load of dehydrated potato pieces inside a bun. I said, "Urgh, what do you call this?" And he goes, "I thought you asked for a Smash burger".

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #259 includes music from Belle and Sebastian, Saint Etienne, The Shangri-Las, Peaches, Wishy, Souad Massi, Rowena Wise, The Freed Unit, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Pierce Turner, Owen Pallett, Pere Ubu, Rainbirds, Shrag and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/06/list...

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LIST 259 - 20/06/2026

Hello again, So, for those of you who are following it, how's your World Cup going? If you're Belle and Sebastian , it's going alright. Wh...

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Dan Pop-o-matic @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Sad to hear that the Curzon in Sheffield in closing. I'm not surprised though. The Showroom will always get the loyal art house crowd due to being independent, and the Light is much nicer (and takes surprising risks in the films they show for a chain). Always a shame when a cinema closes though.

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #258 incl. music from Kirsty MacColl, Doublespeak, Genesis Owusu, Tamikrest, Faith Eliott, Sulk Rooms, Pink Breath of Heaven, Haute & Freddy, Sister Irene O'Connor, Fatoumata Diawara, Cyndi Lauper, Enderby's Room & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/06/list...

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LIST 258 - 13/06/2026

Hello again, It's a pleasure to be with you once more today, and a grateful thanks is extended to you all for dropping in for last weekend's...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

To borrow the old Henning Wehn line, "well that was highly satisfactory"... #GermanyCuraçao

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Saturday, 12.01am. Jeremy writes about and adds a link to his music blog of an Australian Franciscan missionary playing low-fi devotional folk from 1973. Saturday, 11.50am. BBC Radio 6 Music play an Australian Franciscan missionary playing low-fi devotional folk from 1973. Coincidence?

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Released exactly 30 years ago today, and still one of my all-time top three albums. Punky, progressive, poppy, beautiful, noisy and psychedelic, either by turns or sometimes all at once. Inventive, wide-eyed, restless. Practically ADHD in music form. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Sing to God • Cardiacs • LP Album • 1995/1996 - YouTube

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #257 includes music from Patrick Wolf, Tim Smith, Les Rita Mitsouko, Lizzo, Prolapse, 14 Iced Bears, Mbongwana Star, The Garlands, DJ Carl Cox, Die Form, Velly Joonas, St Christopher, Lena, Growing, Die Sterne and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/06/list...

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LIST 257 - 06/06/2026 (Feature Fest #2)

(The Garlands - The Red House, Sheffield 01/08/2011. Picture is author's own) Hello again, Three months and twelve Lists on from the fi...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Sunday: a sparrow. Monday: a squirrel (already his fifth this spring). Tuesday: a mouse. Other than catbiscuits, this yoghurt is about the only thing Bernard's eaten this week that didn't once have a pulse. Clearly a bigger bell is required on his collar. Maybe one of Big Ben's.

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Son, 10, today: "Dad, which of these should I be saying in school - "Well, shiver me timbers!", or "Well, bugger me!""?

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #256 includes music from Lucia & the Best Boys, Gelli Haha, Kneecap, Falle Nioke, Erase Errata, Lime Garden, Jesca Hoop, Fog And Ocean, Skyscraper, Monsoon, Joachim Witt, Expensive, Dressy Bessy, Queen Rodeo and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/05/list...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #255 includes music from Daði Freyr, Beck, The Loft, Tara Clerkin Trio, X-103, Tony Bontana, Girlpuppy, Paycheque, Dead Badgers, Isobel Campbell, North Sea Radio Orchestra, The Boothill Foot-Tappers, Ex Orkest and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/05/list...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

That Music List #254 compiles my personal faves from Eurovisions 2019-2026, incl. Daði Freyr, Käärijä, Circus Mircus, Joost Klein, Serhat, Voyager, Erika Vikman, Zalagasper, Maro, Baby Lasagna, Tautumeitas, Keiino, Sal Da Vinci, Lion Ceccah, Gåte and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/05/list...

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LIST 254 – 16/05/2026 (Eurovision Special)

Hello all, For those of you (there must be some?) who have been keeping count across the two lifetimes of That Music List , you'll know alre...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

All sorted for this evening. Balming booze not in shot.

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #253 includes music from Allo Darlin', Girl Tones, J Dilla, They Might Be Giants, Potè, W.I.T.C.H., Cult Figures, Stereolab, Furii, Metric, Deathprod, Die Art, Craven Faults, Rainbow Reservoir, The Primitives and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/05/list...

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LIST 253 – 09/05/2026

Hello again, Contrary to expectations, no gig report from me this week. I would have liked to enthuse about W.I.T.C.H .'s visit to Sidney ...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Mavis Mason would have been 21 years of age today. Old enough to receive the full National Living Wage. Old enough to supervise a learner driver. Old enough to hold a license for a bus. Old enough to apply to adopt a child. She'd have been many things. We're just so grateful that we had been hers.

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The Anchoress aka Catherine Anne Davies @theanchoress.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Happy 1 month old to I Had A Baby Not A Lobotomy! What a whirlwind of a four weeks it has been ❤️🙏🏻 Thanks to everyone who has watched, listened, shared or written about the first single from the new album. Feeling very grateful and exhausted right now. X

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

That thing where you sit down one weekend and accidentally spend it writing a review of all of the Eurovision songs. Almost certainly too long, and full of questionable takes, but then that’s my writing generally (I’ll say it before any of you do). thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/05/that...

Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #252 includes music from Raye, Antony Szmierek, Josie, Stevie Wonder, The School, No Peeling, Broken Chanter, Laura Cantrell, And One, Kit, The Male Nurse, Mumble Tide, LFO, Rachel's, DAF, Chapterhouse, Gnac and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/05/list...

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LIST 252 – 02/05/2026

Hello again, What a pleasant few days it was for team TML last weekend. More through luck than skill, considering the tickets had been bo...

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Graysonscolumn @graysonscolumn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

That Music List continues. Edition #251 includes music from Boards of Canada, The Anchoress, Colour Me Wednesday, Spacemoth, The Fourth Act, Aberdeen, The Itch, Credit to the Nation, Lionrock, Studio Kosmische, Quadrophonia, Pictish Trail, Picasio and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/04/list...

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LIST 251 - 25/04/2026

Hello again, The analysis is already in full cry. Of course it is. First the marketing website updated with Morse Code, then the mailed V...

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